Sentence examples for served to reopen from inspiring English sources

The move served to reopen some old wounds.

Judge Garzón's investigation had provoked an outcry from conservatives who said that raking over the past would serve only to reopen wounds.

"We believe it serves no healing purpose to reopen painful circumstances that have already been very publicly discussed, and where reconciliation has been reached with victims".

He also sought to reopen a Yangon monastery that served as a center of opposition during the 2007 uprising.

Then, in the 2002 elections, Republicans took control of the state house, and Tom DeLay, the Houston-area congressman who serves as House Majority Leader in Washington, decided to reopen the redistricting question.

In a joint effort with federal officials for which the governor served as the public face, work crews were able to reopen the Santa Monica Freeway to motorists 84 days after it had shattered in the quake.

He plans to reopen it as Dominic Restaurant/Social Club, serving Italian-American dishes.

Its hurricane playbook explains how to reopen a restaurant and what to serve if there is gas but no electricity, or a generator but no ice.

It is proposing to reopen and refurbish Woodbourn Road stadium, which would serve as the city's main outdoor athletics arena.

On Monday morning the building, which also serves as the central library for Westchester's 38-library system, is scheduled to reopen.

Only then did Goldman and Salomon Brothers, the two largest brokerage firms serving institutional investors at the time, step in and offer to put up capital to reopen trading in stocks.